Crown-Indigenous relations

As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous Peoples at risk.

A family member of residential school survivors says the minimum $55-million price tag for Pope’ visit to Canada last year feels like another slap in the face for Indigenous people.

The largest loan in the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's history was awarded to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) on Tuesday.

A delegation that included Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Indigenous leaders signed a knowledge-sharing arrangement with officials from Aotearoa-New Zealand last week.

The flag will remain raised on Parliament Hill until 2024, when a decision will be made on its permanent home.

A new report from the Senate is calling on the federal government to implement Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik and Peskotomuhkati rights-based fisheries on Canada's East Coast and overhaul its approach to negotiations.

Federal officials feared a repeat of the 2020 rail blockades one month before RCMP enforced an injunction last fall against protests that cut off access to a pipeline construction site in northern British Columbia.

Ottawa is preparing to spend $4.3 billion over seven years to help improve Indigenous housing, while also giving more to help communities contend with the harmful past of residential schools.

Yvonne Mirasty was nine years old when she was taken. "When my mom got home from work, we were gone." Along with her siblings, Mirasty was placed in the Timber Bay Children's Home, which the Northern Canada Evangelical Mission and later the Brethren in Christ Church ran between 1952 to 1994.

The national flag is set to be hoisted on Sunday, November 7, 2021, at federal buildings across Canada and the Peace Tower in Ottawa following the longest period in the country's history that it has flown at half-mast.

Riley Yesno is a leading voice of the first post-residential school generation, and the young Anishinaabe activist says many of her peers are moving beyond broken promises about reconciliation.

Residential school survivor Evelyn Korkmaz is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to release thousands of documents that detail the sexual and physical abuse of thousands of Indigenous children at St. Anne’s residential school in the last century.

The federal government says it will not meet a marquee pledge by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lift all boil-water advisories in First Nations communities by March 2021.

Hereditary chiefs who oppose a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia say they will sign an agreement with the federal and provincial governments that affirms their title and rights.

A study of 100 cases found First Nations were denied 81 per cent of the injunctions they filed against corporations.